hardly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 几乎不， 简直不； 仅仅，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Besides, you can hardly call it a journey," added Paganel.
-- He hardly spoke to his PEONS.
-- Perhaps he hardly knew, indeed, that he was climbing at all, or perhaps he fancied he was descending.
-- "Of course; and if it will give you the slightest pleasure—"His companions had hardly time to thank him for his obliging good nature, when distant and prolonged howls broke on their ear, plainly not proceeding from one or two solitary animals, but from a whole troop, and one, moreover, that was rapidly approaching.
-- However DISTRAIT our friend Paganel is, it is hardly likely he would study one language for another."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
-- I had hardly expected so dolichocephal- ic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
-- Sir Charles lay on his face, his arms out, his fingers dug into the ground, and his features convulsed with some strong emotion to such an extent that I could hardly have sworn to his identity.
-- 'Meanwhile,' said he, 'I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me.
-- So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more West-ern dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is hardly a relation at all; so little, in fact, that I was not in the least surprised to have no answer to my letter.
-- 'No, I don't not at all!I hardly know anyone in Russia.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This recovered her sufficiently and she went excitedly on, hardly breathing until the shadow moved away from behind her.
-- She felt as though she could hardly endure such a life.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other nig-gers.
-- A few days ago I was talk- ing with an old couple that lives next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody ever goes to that island over yonder that they call Jackson's Island.
-- I reckon I shook like a leaf, and I didn't know hardly what to do.
-- Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said.
-- I couldn't hardly hang on to the shutters, I was so weak.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can hardly believe it.
-- Pinocchio closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, while Geppetto stuck on the two feet with a bit of glue melted in an eggshell, doing his work so well that the joint could hardly be seen.
-- asked poor Harlequin with a voice that was hardly a breath.
-- He asked for a bite of bread and a few nuts and then hardly touched them.
-- He tried to run away, but hardly had he taken a step, when he felt his arms grasped and heard two horrible, deep voices say to him: "Your money or your life!"
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